PC World - USA (2019-12)

34 PCWorld DECEMBER 2019

NEWS GEFORCE GTX 1660 SUPER

GEFORCE EXPERIENCE GETS

NEW FEATURES

Nvidia’s supplementing the GTX Super launch

with some enticing new GeForce Experience

software features. The one I’m most excited

about? Native ReShade filter support for

Ansel (go.pcworld.com/ansl) and Freestyle

(go.pcworld.com/fsty).

You may have heard of ReShade (go.

pcworld.com/rshd). The enthusiast software

lets you apply post-processing shaders to

games, giving them a new look and feel,

sometimes with jaw-dropping results. Now,

Nvidia’s baking it into GFE, letting you use

hundreds of filters in over 650 games.

There are limitations: Only select “official”

filters work in competitive games to prevent

you from being banned, and games that

haven’t integrated Ansel at a developer level

have their support capped to official filters as

well. The 80-plus games that bake in the Ansel

SDK can use any ReShade filter when the game

is paused. More than 160 non-competitive

games can apply any ReShade filter using

Nvidia’s real-time Freestyle post-processing.

Get your screenshotting fingers ready,

Dead End Thrills wannabes (go.pcworld.

com/dend). This is huge for “games as art”

aficionados.

To use ReShade filters, you’ll need to drop

them into the folder at Program Files > Nvidia

Corporation > Ansel. (If you don’t see the folder

there, you’ll need to create it.) Once that’s done,

you’ll simply need to press either Alt + F2 to

activate Ansel or Alt + F3 to activate Freestyle,

then select your chosen ReShade option in the

drop-down Filters menu. Easy-peasy.

Speaking of, the revamped image

sharpening feature Nvidia introduced to

combat AMD’s Radeon Image Sharpening (go.

pcworld.com/

imsp) once

required using

FreeStyle. No

more. Now, you

can also apply

image

sharpening

globally via the

driver control

panel (right-click

on desktop and

choose Nvidia

Control Panel),

COMPETITIVE

GAMES

NON-COMPETITIVE

GAMES

Freestyle Filters Supported (14 filters) Supported (14 filters)

Official ReShade Filters Supported (30+ filters) Supported (70+ filters)

Custom ReShade Filters -- Supported (All Filters, 160 titles)

COMPETITIVE

GAMES

NON-COMPETITIVE

GAMES

Ansel Filters Supported (16 filters) Supported (16 filters)

Official ReShade Filters Supported (30+ filters) Supported (70+ filters)

Custom ReShade Filters -- Supported (Any Filters)

NVIDIA

FREESTYLE

NVIDIA

ANSEL